Zichao Yang (杨子超)

Assistant Professor, Wenlan School of Business, ZUEL
E-Mail: yang_zichao A-T outlook.com
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Current Research Interests

Cryptocurrencies, CBDC, Macroeconomics, Machine Learning, NLP

Working Papers

  1. Agree to Disagree: Measuring Hidden Dissents in FOMC Meetings (August 2023, with Kwok Ping Tsang), Update: November 2024, Under Review

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  2. ESG Rating Disagreement and Corporate Total Factor Productivity: Inference and Prediction (October 2024, with Zhanli Li), R&R, Finance Research Letters

  3. Judicial Institution and Innovation: Evidence from China’s Intellectual Property Courts Reform (September 2024, with Liyang Wan, Qian Wan and Ying Zhao), R&R, Journal of Development Economics

  4. The Impact of Stay-at-Home Orders on US Output: A Network Perspective (April 2020, with Shaowen Luo and Kwok Ping Tsang)

Publications

  1. Do Connections Pay Off in the Bitcoin Market?, Tsang, K.P. & Yang, Z. (2022) , Journal of Empirical Finance
  2. The Market For Bitcoin Transactions, Tsang, K.P. & Yang, Z. (2021) , Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money
  3. Price Dispersion in Bitcoin Exchanges, Tsang, K.P. & Yang, Z. (2020) , Economics Letters

Selected Works in Progress

  1. Deanonymize Bitcoin Transactions, with Kwok Ping Tsang
  2. A Very English Phenomenon: Competition in the International Labor Market, with Xinquan Zhao
  3. Written in the Blockchain: The Anatomy of Deccentralized Betting Markets, with Kwok Ping Tsang

Teaching

Instructor, ZUEL
Undergrad Course
Blockchain and Digital Money (Fall, 2024)
Financial Markets (Fall 2022, 2023, 2024)
Machine Learning in Finance (Spring, 2024)
Introduction to the Digital Economy (Spring, 2024, Co-Instructor)

Grad Courses
Machine Learning in Economics (Fall, 2023, 2024)
International Finance (Fall 2022, 2023)
Frontier of Technology and Economics II (Spring 2022)

Workshop Session
Blockchain Technology and Its Impact on the Global Economy (Spring 2023)

Instructor, VT
ECON2006 Principles of Macroeconomics (Fall 2020, Winter 2020)
ECON2005 Principles of Microeconomics (Spring 2020)